Are we becoming a ‘Police State’ https://t.co/QGouX9wUPU

Cambridge Dictionary defines a Police state as “a country in which the government uses the police to severely limit people’s freedom”. Merriam Webster defines a Police State “a political unit characterized by repressive governmental control of political, economic, and social life usually by an arbitrary exercise of power by police and especially secret police in place of regular operation of administrative and judicial organs of the government according to publicly known legal procedures”. To sum up, in a Police State, human rights are subordinate to the will of governments that exercises its power arbitrarily through the police force. The week gone by witnessed two marches in world’s biggest and the world’s oldest democracy- one ‘long march’ taken out by students of JNU in New Delhi and another ‘march for our lives’ against gun control by the students of USA. What disting...